Tractors and wood! Show your pics
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vtsnowedin
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It would be nice to have some nice level woods like that. Looks like you could cut out every other tree without reducing the total biomass growth at all and then start over again for years.
It would be nice to have some nice level woods like that. Looks like you could cut out every other tree without reducing the total biomass growth at all and then start over again for years.
Rustyiron
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Nice!
In your 3rd pic, you must be up in one heck of a tree stand!:laughing:
In your 3rd pic, you must be up in one heck of a tree stand!:laughing:
Rustyiron
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Nice!
In your 3rd pic, you must be up in one heck of a tree stand!:laughing:
In your 3rd pic, you must be up in one heck of a tree stand!:laughing:
arrow
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Great shots. I echo Rusty's appreciation of the third. That to me is your best pic here and one of the best pics I've seen on TBN.
Beautiful picture sequence Sawyer. Isn't it a nice, warm feeling that at the end of the day your equipment has come through again to accomplish what you wished for.
Gordon Gould
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SawyerRob - Very nice post. I enjoyed it.
One question though not knowing much about milling. Why do you sticker stack and dry the 3X8's verticallly. Are you trying to minimize the crowning vs cupping or twisting ?? Thanks.
gg
One question though not knowing much about milling. Why do you sticker stack and dry the 3X8's verticallly. Are you trying to minimize the crowning vs cupping or twisting ?? Thanks.
gg
Sawyer Rob
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That's the exact reason... The lumber will dry down to ambient moisture level of the space it's in, and it will take on what ever shape it's in, while it's drying. So, trying to keep it as straight and level as possible while drying is important...
Thanks for the kind words guys...and glad you liked the picts..
SR
Creamer
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Am I the only one that got struck by the irony of someone out cutting firewood in the winter in a cabbed tractor? Just out of curiosity does that cab have a wood heater in it?
vtsnowedin
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I don't find that ironic at all. Heating your house with your own wood can save you $3000 or more per winter and a tractor can help you cut enough wood to heat several houses. So do you want to burn middle east oil and send your money up the chimney or make the payments on your tractor?
A cab, soft or hard, makes working in the woods a lot more comfortable and provides protection from hypothermia. A couple of cold days per year will pay for a soft cab and perhaps six to eight for a hard cab.
Yup I'm going to heat my house with wood but I'm not going to cut it with axe and bucksaw nor draw it to the house on a hand sled.